The specialists of the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT" made a rating of the models that were the leaders of the Russian car market in 1998 - 2017. If until 2016 they all belonged to the same brand - the domestic LADA, but now, for the last two years, foreign cars are the leaders on the Russian market.

Ford Mondeo sedan has received a technological upgrade aimed at the safety improving of the car and improving of the intelligent driver assistance systems. People can order updated Ford Mondeo at all official Ford dealers in Russia.

KIA set a new sales record in October in Russia

In October, Russian dealers of KIA sold 21,002 cars, which is more by 20.7% than a year ago. In this case, the achieved figure is a record for the whole time of the Korean brand in our country, informed the press service of KIA Motors Rus.

The KIA's best-selling model remains Rio in the Russian market; 7,899 sedans and cross hatchbacks of this family were sold in October (-10%). The second place in terms of sales was occupied by the Optima business sedan, which in October was chosen by a record number of Russians - 2679. It is more by 69.3% than a year ago. The three most popular KIA models also included the Sportage compact crossover with the result of 2193 sold units (+ 6%). Last month, the Ceed family (2078 units; + 48.6%) overcame the mark of 2 thousand cars. Almost equal sales figures were fixed for Cerato sedan (1,755 units; + 155.5%), showing the best growth, and compact van Soul (1,728 units; + 40.6%). We also note the sales of the KIA Sorento Prime crossover (1017 units; + 55.5%), which also exceeded 1 thousand units.

According to the results of 10 months of 2018, 188,492 KIA cars were sold in Russia, which is more by 23.5% in compare with the same period of the last year. Thus, KIA continues to keep the leadership among foreign automakers in Russia, and the market share of the brand, according to preliminary data, is 13%. We also add that on November 1st, 2018 in 99 cities of Russia there were 190 official KIA dealers.